“When I stood on the greatest summit I’ve ever achieved, success vaporized. As many before, I learned that the moment we think we have attained the goal, we lose it. Success is empty. The sum of all our luck, judgements, lessons learned and heeded, elevation gained and lost, our fitness and skill is zero” -Steve [...]
Races
Pineland Farms Trail Challenge 50k
Memorial Day Weekend Part 2: My first Ultramarathon My husband runs Ultramarathons. When I started my journey towards running back in October I thought that perhaps, in the distant future, I could run half marathons with him. I never in a million years would have imagined that I would be running a 50k race 7 [...]
Adam's Running
Crewing at Massanutten Mountain Trails 100
A few weekends ago my hubby and I traveled down to Virginia so he could race in the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100 miler race. I know this is a late report seeing as the race happened May 15-16th but the entire group of people that run that race was wonderful. The members and volunteers from [...]
Training
My First 50+ Mile Week
Since I started running in October 2009, I’ve been doing a lot of long slow miles. It’s base building. It’s strengthening my joints, tendons, ligaments. I’ve been putting a lot of miles into my training but I had yet to do more than a 40 mile week. I had put in a lot of miles [...]
Race Prep
Countdown to that First Ultra-Marathon
In a little over a month, I will be attempting something that seemed impossible to me until lately. I will be entering a World that I have watched from the sidelines for the last two years. I will be attempting my first Ultra-Marathon before I have ever tried a Marathon. Am I nervous? A little [...]
Featured
Running Hope Through America
Today I had the privilege of running with a truly incredible individual. And you can too. Lisa Smith Batchen is running 50 miles in 50 states in 62 days to raise money for millions of children. That’s an ultra marathon in every state. She’s traveling America with her support crew and her friend Sister Mary [...]
Adam's Running
Adam’s Race Report
Adam wrote up a report on the Vermont 100 race. I asked him if he could post it to my blog. But he’s a pretty modest fellow. So he started his own blog instead. Fine by me. He wrote the report with intention that it could be useful to both newbies to the sport of [...]
Adam's Running
Vermont 100 – The Horses of the Race
The horses run their own event during the run: The Vermont 100 and Moonlight 50/75 endurace ride. I guess the original 100 mile runner started on horseback. For the second year in a row his horse had come up lame the day of the one day event. Rather than miss the race he decided to [...]
Adam's Running
Vermont 100 – Race Report/Runners
Warning: This post promises to be much much too long! So this weekend my husband did something truly amazing, he raced in the Vermont 100 Endurance Race. That’s 100 miles of running. On two legs and two feet, no swapping those out. But he did it. And I helped out by driving around and providing [...]
Adam's Running
Pittsfield Peaks 2009
We spent Saturday in Pittsfield, Vermont. Adam was racing the 53 mile, 14,000 feet of elevation gain ultramarathon known as Pittsfield Peaks. Cooper was thrilled to find Adam after waiting for him at at Aid Station. A lot of Ultrarunning is actually walking. At least at Adam and his friends’ levels. Adam seemed to be [...]
